Landmarks of American History and Culture | 20240214 BH BG

Opportunity Information: Apply for 20240214 BH BG

The Landmarks of American History and Culture grant opportunity is a discretionary National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) program run through the NEH Division of Education Programs. Its purpose is to fund the design and delivery of one-week workshops that use historic places and cultural sites as springboards for teaching and scholarship in the humanities. In practice, the program supports residential, fully virtual, and hybrid (combined format) workshops offered across the United States, with the core goal of helping K-12 educators, college and university faculty, and other humanities professionals strengthen the way they incorporate place-based approaches into humanities instruction and research. The emphasis is on using location, landscape, built environments, and local cultural contexts to deepen understanding of American history and culture and to translate that learning into stronger classroom practice and public-facing humanities work.

The opportunity is identified as "Landmarks of American History and Culture" under Funding Opportunity Number 20240214 BH BG, and it uses the grant funding instrument. It falls under the Humanities funding activity category (aligned with cultural affairs within federal assistance classifications) and is associated with CFDA number 45.163. NEH indicates an award ceiling of up to $190,000 per grant, and it anticipated making around 13 awards under this competition cycle. The original application deadline for the cycle referenced is February 14, 2024, and the opportunity record shows a creation date of October 18, 2023.

Eligibility is broad and includes many types of public and nonprofit entities that can credibly organize and host humanities programming at a national or regional level. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; and nonprofits with IRS 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education). Taken together, that eligibility list reflects NEH's typical approach of allowing proposals from organizations with the administrative capacity to manage federal funds and the subject-matter credibility to run rigorous humanities professional development programs.

Overall, the grant is best understood as support for intensive, short-duration professional development centered on significant American places and the humanities questions those places raise. The funded workshops are intended to help educators and humanities professionals develop new content knowledge, teaching materials, and interpretive approaches that connect people, events, and ideas to the physical settings where history and culture unfolded, whether participants engage on site, online, or through a combination of both.

• The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Landmarks of American History and Culture" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.163.
• This funding opportunity was created on Oct 18, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Feb 14, 2024. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $190,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 13 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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